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8 SETTLING UPON A SITE. REPRESENTATIVE NORWOOD AND THE NEW POST OFFICE The Barracks Site Approved by the Masonic Hall Maas Meeting Mr. Nor wood’s Speech —He Telia Why the Government Selected the Barracks —Solicitor General Dußignon's Reply —The Resolutions. Between 800 and 000 people were at Masonic Hall last night to attend the meet ing called for the pnrpose of indorsing the Oglethorpe Barracks site for the new public building. The hall wai filled long before the hour of meeting. The gallery was packed, and the crowd was sticking out of the doorway. The crowd began to grow restive by the time the hall was filled. A block away were heard now and then wild yells that issued from 800 throats. Silence followed for a brief space and (hen again the air would be split by some vociferous call for someone whose name was submerged iu the volume of invitations. THE CROWD GETTING ANXIOUS. The platform was crowded and there was no one to control the meeting. The audi ence did not want to wait. It was anxious for the proceedings to begin. It calks! for Thomas, Purse, uuDignon, then for Purse, riußiguon, Thomas, and dußignon, Thomas, Purse. As the followers of each got the opportunity they urged the claims of their leader for the chairmanship. Acting Mayor Schwarz was to have been chairman, but as he had presided over the other meeting he thought it unwise to preside last night, so he did not appear. At last Mr. I>. R. Thomas was led to the platform, anil his appearance was greeted with a wild yell, lie raised his hand to command silence and said: “Gentlemen, under oi-diiiary circum stances I would thank you for this honor, but I question whether 1 have been duly elected. Preferring concord and harmony rather than discord and division, I desire a more definite expression of your choice. I will appoint Messrs. Comer and Leffler tellers. Mr. Thomas then asked if it was desires! that he should act as chairman of the meet ing, and a storm of “aves " was heard. The “noes’’ wire few, and he was declared elected. Mr. Frank E. Rebarer was elected secretary. MU. NORWOOD’S SPEECH. The crowd then began to call “Norwood,” “Norwood/' “Norwood,” and when the First distriet’s (Representative stepped ujion the platform he was greeted with tremendous cheering. Mr. Noi wood spoke as follows: "MvFei.low Citizens: You have been called together as business men to settle a purely bus ness question. There is no politics in it, nothing in it except the feneral interest of the city of Savannah. was partly instrumental in having this meeting called in consequence of a meeting held in the City Exchange last Wednesday during my absence in Washington. I thought it only proper and a duty to you as well as to myself, that I should be heard w ith reference to the site for the newr public building. We have a serious question to consider, and 1 hope you will be calm, de liberate and thoughtful. I hope that all feeling will be laid aside. Besides asking you to lay aside all feeling, I ask you to lav aside all selfishness. Be catholic in laying aside all personal interest; consider only the general interest. THE CITY EXCHANGE MEETING. “As to those gentlemen—many of whom are my personal friends, and of whom I de sire to say no unkind word, in no unkind spirit.—who assembled at the City Exchange and condemned me before I was heard, I desire to say that I offer.forthemthe prayer which the old Scotch preacher who was in the habit of using big words offered. When ever he used a word that he thought the Lord did not understand he would explain it, and he prayed, ‘Oh, Lord, give us recep tivity—that is, Lord, give us the power to receive impressions,” and I hope*the gentle men will receive impressions and come with ns that we may reason together. I want to say in advance that I have no more interest than any other citizen in the location of the post office. Iha eno stock in the company which owns the barracks ancl no land near it to be enhanced in value by the erection of a fine builduig, so I can say, as do the Solicitors General. thatjl stand an impartial witness between the State and the accused; that I have no bias, and that, after having seen the crime committed uud heard the •vidence. [Laughter.] THE CHARGE OF DERELICTION. “What.” he added, “did my friends say? That 1 had lieen derelict in my duty. It is a grave ohargp. It was not said on the streets, but iu public. It was printed in tiie newspapers, and it has lieen spread broadcast throughout thrtdistrict. It means that I have abandoned my duty, and I think that in view of mv past history that it is a serious charge. I have gone in and out before you for thirtv vears. You have teen me in my private life, you have seen me in my professional life, vou have seen me in my pubfic life, and what have I done that intelligent men should meet in public and condemn me as a public servant? Is there anything in my past history to justify it? lift us look for a moment. I think it a lit occasion to review my record. I served you in in the dark days, and when the c .nunonwealth was attacked in her legislative halls 1 resisted the attack. When the general election came on ai the court house 1 went there and saw the liberty of my people being trampleil under foot. I called the young men around me and we contested every inch of ground for four days, ami that, too, when prominent men, by word and in the press, advocated that we should touch not, taste not, handle not, tho unclean thing; that all the action of the reconstructionist was unconstitutional, but wo went on. REVIEWING HIS RECORD. “In 1870 1 did the same thing. I saw the State I siing misruled and 1 wrote a serios of articles under the name of Nemesis. [Ap plause.] After that 1 was sent to the Sen ate. I saw again the State misruled. I saw a bill introduced to coerce you. To mingle your children in the schools with children of another race. I attacked it, and I am proud to say that when 1 had spoken the bill was referred back and the obnoxious clause was stricken out. [Applause.] That ■was to protect the children, tho grown peo ple could protect themselves. When 1 re tired from that field of labor you sent ine to the House of Representatives. You were attacked there. You were called cutthroats, murderers, and were accused of stuffiing the ballot Imres by Henderson, of lowa. I resented the attack, and I never heard an adverse criticism until the last election when my adversary said in Tattnall county that that speech of Nor wood's was the worst speech ever made by a public man; that it split the Democratic party and united tho Republican (during the iaugh that followed someone said, ‘You’ll find it so’). I asked for an appro lation for a public building. I asked for 5500,000, but the committee cut me down to $500,000. March (i the bill passed the House and went to the Senate. I followed it to the Senate and got the chairman of the committee*:, Mr. Vest of Missouri, to push it through. TOOK IT TO THE PRESIDENT. “I took it to the President with mv own hand, and I did it because he had vetoed a public building bill only three days before. < in Sept. 30 he signed the bill, and I went to the Secretary of the Treasury and asked him to send an agent down here. He did so. I went to him again and he sent another. “After Uougross adjourned I went to him again ami lie said he needed a bill for the condemnation of pro|erty; that he pre ferred a lot on Hull street, and the reaw n why ho could not get one 1 will state further on. I dtw up a bill for the oouinn of the rights, and Another for the right of condemnation. I was con demned for that. They said it was an out ! rage. My answer was that every man who : owns property owns it subject to the State, which has the right to take it. but which j always gives just compensation. So the I United States government must have sites I for lighthouses, fortresses, arsenals and public buildings. An amendment was added to the bill which emasculated it, and i placed the government in the position of I not being able to act until the bill was I passed MR. NORWOOD’S CONSTITUENTS, i “But, said my friends, I did not consult my constituents, and, therefore, I have been I derelict. I propose to put the boot on the other leg and show that 1 did not neglect my duty, but that the gentlemen who were so ready to make the charge neglected theirs. The act was approved and an agent sent out. He did not hide his light under a bushel. It was advertised in The Morning News that he was coining and what he was coining for, and let me say that when the selection of the site was the question I turned it over to the citizens. I did not speak for any site, except to say that, I liked Dr. Hopps’. I did not oppose the Union So ciety lot, though I did not like it. The let ter 'of the Secretary, published in the Morning News, said that I had kept my hands off. I left it to you, and why; When the question of the site come up the Repre sentative was sunk in the citizen, and the humblest man hail as much right to be heaid as the greatest. SELECTING THE SITE. “Now, I say, these agent! came down to select a site, and it was known. It was a iiending question. I was not idle, though it was no nioro my duty than that of every other citizen. Another was laboring with me, Capt. Wheaton. After the agents had made their rerxirts, all were satisfied except Dr. Hopps, mill he would not sell. Then Capt. Wheaton took Bull street and Aber eorn, and several other streets, and found none eligible that the owners would sell. They talk of the court house square! You all know that even if it was eligible it costs too much. We can't take SIOO,OOO to buy the site and leave only $100,IKK) for the building.” Mr. Norwood then named a number of sites and gave his reasons why they were not suitable, and the reasons were that either the price was too high or the owners would not sell, and he then continued as follows: “But to come back a moment. I say it was an open question. I was doing all I eould. Capt. N\ heaton knew what was going on; but, said Capt Flannery, Mr. Norwood was ilirelict in his duty because he did not consult the Cotton Exchange, the Board of Trade, the Mayor and Aider men. THE TRADE ORGANIZATIONS. “I want to demonstrate to you tire absurd ity of the thing. Will any one tell me what relation exists between the Cotton Ex change, or the Board of Trado, or the Mayor and Aldermen, with the post office? Why, gentlemen, nothing more than the man who drives a dray or picks cotton. Rut I was derelict because I did not consult these corporations. What have they to do with the post office as corporations; Why not consult the Masons, or the Presbyterian church, or the Orphans' Home, or Yama eraw? They nave nothing to do with it as corporations. But it may bo said that they did not want me to consult with the conio rations, hut with the members! With refer ence to the post office all stand upon a com nion plane. There is no distinetion be tween rich and poor, or white anil black. The poor man who pays his 2c. has as great a right to have his letter delivered as the rich man who pays his. though his letter may contain a mil for £2,000. I want to know if I must take a directory and go upon the street and obtain expressions of opinion? AM l DERELICT? “Am I derelict in my duty to the Cotton Exchange ami the Board of Trade? If I am, then lam derelict to every citizen. Am I derelict? I leave it to you as fair-minded men (a chorous of noes). Then where are the men who condemn me? (a voice, “In the dark.”) They are interested in the site, more, perhaps, than any others of their numbers. Why did they not come to me before the site was selected? Why did they sleep and slumber? Why did they not come out when I was working, when Wheaton was working, when the Secretary was working? Ah The king was in his parlor Counting nut his money; The queen was in the kitchen Eating bread and Honey." Roars of laughter followed this poetic allusion. “I lay the sin at your door.” A voice—“ There is no sin in selecting the barracks.” “I am taking their view of it. Where were you when this was going on? (A voice —‘Down South.’) Why did they not come tome; Why did not these gentlemen now in such hot haste to condemn me, why did they not come and aid me? The dereliction does not lie here,” said Mr. Norwood tap ping his breast, “I commend tho poisoned chalice to your own lips.” OTHER SITES CONSIDERED. He then rehearsed the objections to the court house and Union Society sites, saying that they are too small and the latter is next to Hanley’s store, which always contains combustible material, and he then said: “Going up Bull street we found no other site available until we came to the barracks. The government was in this position: take the barracks or wait till till Congress can condemn a site, which would require at least twelve months. The agent reported that he had opened the pro jsisals with Capt. Wheaton, and there is another point my friends have overlooked. Proposals were advertised for, yet Capt. Flannery said that if the Secre tary of the Treasury was making any special effort to obtain a site he knew nothing of it.. My friends remind me of the Hardshell Baptist preacher in South Carolina, who was speaking on a doctrinal point and who, as the preachers say, had got into the brush, lie hesitated a moment anil then said: ‘When a man undertake * to deliver hisself of what he is not pos sessed of, he involves hisself in a lab-y --rinth whereof it is impossible to eradicate hisself therefrom.’ THE COURTS MUST BE RECOGNIZED. “Follow-citizens, there is another matter that has been overlooked by my friends in the Exchange. They treated the matter as if Ihe appropriation was for a post office. If I hail introduced a bill for an appropria tion for a post office I would never have got a cent for you. It was the argument in favor of tho courts, with the letters of Judges Erskine and Speer to show to the President that the rooms were useless as court rooms that secured the appropriation. .So don’t forget that the court, is the head and front of the movement. Th# location of the post office on the barracks site may be an inconvenience to some, and 1 am sorry for it, but when you consider the convenience of the whole city, there has been no wrong done. There will lie no great inconvenience to anyone, but a great convenience to many, especially to the ladies. There is not a father in Savannah who has not told his wife and daughters that it is not the proper thing for them to go to the post office on Bay street to be sub ject to jibes anil jeers and ribald jests, but when the post office is on the barracks site they can go there, and transact their own business. A MATTER OK BUSINESS. “It was a matter of business with my friends, and it is with me, but my friends condemned me, and one man is now carry ing a copy of the Morning News contain ing a report of the meeting in his pocket, showing people that I was condemned by my constituents. They did not mean it, anii I acquit them of it, but I do say that it was unjust and inconsiderate to condemn me without hearing me. No just judge con demns a culprit until he has had his day in court. Feeling that there is no just cause for this, I leave it to you to say whether we . shall stop this work, or shall leave it to so ue vouncar member uf Uin lute to lx, lifted bv THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1887. some of his younger constituents, not now iiorn, by the arms into the chair, and when the youiig orator of the day, now unborn, and whoso father is in swaddling clothes, shall ask almut the appropriation, to be told that there is a tradition floating around that some time long ago an appropriation was made to build a court house, the occu pation of which he is to celebrate with his eloquence. ” CAPT. FLANNERY’S REPLY. Mr. Norwood sat down amidst deafening cheers and Capt. Flannery arose in the audience and spoke, but his words were drowned. An effort was made to hiss him down, but cries of "Flannery” brought him to the stage. He began by saying: “The gentleman who preceded me paid me particular attention—” Mr. Norwood—l only returned the com pliment. Capt. Flannery —He told you of a Baptist preacher. I can’t repeat it. but I can show you that there are two of us. He told you a part of what I said, but ho did not tell you all, and I desire now to say that no inember of the Cotton Exchange, nor any one of us thought of condemn ing him until his name was drugged before us by his friend. Capt. Purse offered a substitute to the resolution, knowing that a substitute could not lie amended, and by that substitute the Secre tary and the Representative had to stand or fall with the barracks, and as we did not approve of the barracks site, we had to vote it down. Capt. Flannery then explained that when he said he knew nothing of any effort on tho part of the Treasury to secure a site he meant since the introduction of the bill in the Legislature. Mr. Norwood said that no special effort had been made since then. Capt. Flannery said that as to Mr. Nor wood’s remarks concerning the'Cotton Ex change, that while they might not be di rectly connected with the post office he thought the members knew as much as any other men aliout the proper place for a pub lic building. Mr. Norwood—l was speaking of it as a corporation. Capt. Flannery—As to that I can remem l>er the time when the gentleman thought differently regarding the Cotton Exchange. 1 remember that he was the attorney for the Southern Pacific road, and then he thought something of the Cotton Ex change. THE RESOLUTIONS. The following resolutions were then intro duced by Mr. M. J. Doyle: Resolved, That, in view of the delay which has lieen caused by the difficulties the Secretary of the Treasury has encountered in the selection of an eligible site in the city of Savannah of suffi cient area upon which to construct the public building authorized by Congress, with dimen sions sufficient to accommodate the two United Stales Courts and the post office, and consider ing that said building is designed to afford post office facilities for the city of Savannah and surrounding territory for perhaps a century to come, and further that the barracks site is even at the present time north of the centre of the city of Savannah, and about equally dis tant from the east and west sides, We, the citizens of Savannah, in mass meeting assem bled do hereby express our approval of the selection hy the Secretary of the Treasury of a fiart of the Oglethoriie barracks property as a oeation for the said public building, and re spectfully request that the work upon said build ing be commenced as soon as practicable. A SUBSTITUTE OFFERED. The following substitute was then offered by Capt. Flannery. Whereas, It is currently reported that the general government has purchased, or is about to purchase, ail or part of the Oglethorpe Bar racks property for a site for a public building in which will be located the post office; and Whereas, The said location is so far removed from the business centre that serious incon venience, delay and probable loss will result to the merchants of the city if the post office be placed thereon; and Whereas. It is confidently believed that a loca tion suitable for all purposes to which the public building will be applied, can be secured at or near the centre of the business portion of the city, that is to say, north of South Broad, and between Abereoru and Bar nard streets; therefore, he it Resolved, That the citizens of Savannah, in public meeting assembled, do respectfully pro test against the selection of the Oglethorpe Barracks projmrty or any other property south of South Broad street for the site for the public building, which is to contain the post office, for the reasons assigned in the, foregoing preamble, and that the chairman of this meet ing be requested to convey it to the Honorable the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States this protest accompanied hy a request that au agent of the Treasury Department be designated to confer with the municipal authori ties and trade organizations of the city of Savannah before determining the location for the public building site. SOLICITOR GENERAL DUBIGNON TALKS. While tho motion was pending there were continuous cries for “dußignon," and at last that gentleman arose and mounted the platform. He said: “Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I cannot see why any one should make the discussion of a site for a post office the occasion of a political speech. I cannot see how any one car make the selection of a site for a post office the occasion of forwarding his own political interests, at the expense of the public welfare. I could not imagine a man so despicable as to create antagonisms and then use them to arouse class preju dices, and then oppose them, and to mount to political place on the ruin of the people. I hope no one here will make a personal applica tion of my remarks. [Laughter.] 1 do not sec why the war should lie dragged into the question, but so far as the gentle man is concerned, I congratulate him, that during the struggle he was so fortunate as to be able to serve the commonwealth—in the halls of the General Assembly.” Mr. dußignon then went on to say that he didn’t see the pressing need for locating the post offieeon Hull street, the promenade of the city. He thought it should be north of State street. and his reason for it was that nineteen-twentieths of the mail that is sent out and received conies from north of State street Three eligible sites, two on Aber corn anr^ Congress and one on Aberrorn and York, are at tho disposal of the government ut prices of $20,000, $20,000 and $30,000 respectively, yet the government had to have a site on Bull street, and would spend $.i0,000 for it, when the appropriation is even now far too small for a port of this size, and a city of Savannah’s importance. As to the court, he did not think Bull street the place for it, for children passed along Bull street going to and from school, and the hangers-on around the court rooms are usually neither ornamental nor useful, and prisoners would be marched through the street—men charged with rob bing the mail or using the mail for circu lating obscene literature, and these nre the characters the children will have to meet. Mr. dußignon concluded by saying that he knew he was in a minority, but that lie had never yet lieen afraid to express his honest opinions, no matter how many opposed him. He took his seat amid loud cheers that con tinued for some minutes and until Mr. Nor wood arose. MR. Norwood’s reply. Mr. Norwood said that during the war lie served his State in the place to which she sent him. For two years she kept him in the legislature, and then he took the field. In conclusion he told the story of how John Randolph killed the Illinois Congressman’s bill by simply raising his hands and re peating: “Good Goal Good God! Good God!’’ PUTTING THE QUESTION. The meeting by this timo had become a jierfoct liedlam. ' Yells and cat calls, imita tions of the crow of the rooster and all sorts of noises rent the air. Chairman Thomas was powerless, but at last he succeeded in putting the question on the substitute and the ayes and noes were so equally di vided that a division was called for. It was fully a quarter of an hour before anything could be done, and no order was maintained until 8. B. Adams, Esq., took the platform, and suggested that those in favor of the substitute goon the west side of the hall, and those opposite on the east. Chairman Thomas adopted the suggestion, and the crowd divided. The noes had a slight majority, hut, the meeting was more evenly divided than those present had thought, it would lie. The motion was then put on 1 e original resolution and it was carried, uiml the meeting adjourned amid great confusion. SET UPON I.V HIS OFFICE. POSTMASTER LAMAR ASSAULTED BY HIS LATE DEPUTY. His Assailant Arrested, But Released on Bail A Pistol Figures in the Melee —The Cause of the Difficulty Col. Anderson Demands His Bond, But Fails to Get It. The animosity that has existed between Postmaster Lamar and Col. Clifford An derson, his late assistant, culminated yes terday in a personal encounter in the Post master's private office. Col. Anderson had been discharged, his books had been exanuned, a shortage found, and made up by his friends, and he thought that he was entitled to his bond. He went into the office of Capt. Lamar yesterday, and de manded it. Capt. Lamar refused to give it up until the investigation is settled as he did not know what might be found before that. Col. Anderson then be gan a vigorous abuse of Capt. Lamar, call ing him exceedingly unpleasant names, and referring to him in most violent language. Capt. Lamar said that Col. Anderson drew a pistol, and as he did so he sprang forward with astick in his hand and grasped the pistol. Col. Anderson denied that ho drew the pistol until Capt. Lamar struck him. At any rate the pistol was drawn and Capt. Lamar struck Col. Anderson on tho head with his cane, cutting a gash 2 inches long. A second blow cut his loft cheek, and from his wounds poured streams of blood that dyed his linen crimson. THE COMBATANTS SEPARATED. Dr. Schley, who was writing a prescrip tion in the office, and the clerks interfered and separated them, and a messenger was sent for the police. Acting Mayor Schwarz was at the Exchange anil he responded, as there was a question in his mind whether a city policeman had a right to make an arrest in a government building and he wished to take the responsibility upon himself. He took Col. Anderson to the Exchange and at once consult ed Corporation Attorney Adams as to his right to make the arrest. Mr. Adams re plied that a city policeman could arrest anyone on government property for a viola tion of a city ordinance. While/the matter was lieing determined Detective Wetherhom arrived with a peace warrant which had been sweam out by Capt. Lamar before Justice Waring Russell, and Maj, Schwarz turned his prisoner over to him. , CAUSE OK THE AFFRAY. The ex-Deputy gave his statement of the trouble which has existed between Capt. Lamar and himself. He said that it first arose over the key to the vault: that there were frequently $14,000 to $15,000 in stamps in the vault, and sometimes $4,000 or $5,000 in money, for all of which he was responsible. In view of the fact that he was held accountable for it he desired sole possession of the key which was in the custody of two of the clerks who were not in any way accounta ble. He had spoken to Capt. Lamar, he said, about the matter, but it did no good, and last March, while he was suffer ing from the effects of a surgical operation, Capt. Lamar wrote to him about this and other matters, drinking and smoking in the office among other things, and he repliod stating that if he was to De held to a rigid accountability for the con tents of the vault he wanted sole possession of the key. Col. Anderson said a shortage of SSO had occurred in the stamps and Col. Anderson said that he had made that up, that he had not had possession of the key since Sept. 1 until the trouble arose and the inspectors came on to examine his accounts. He said the accounts might not have been left as accurately as they would have lieen had ho lieen a trained accountant, but his training was a military one. He was sure, however, that though he was not a good bookkeeper, he was not responsible for the shortage which the inspectors had found in his cash. The deficit had been made good, however, by his friends, though against his wishes. Col. Anderson declined, however, to state the amount of his alleged defalcation, or how much his friends had paid up for him. He desired to let the matter remain open and be decided in the courts. THE SHORTAGE MADE GOOD. But, he said, the money had been paid and it is no longer a matter of dollars and cents; it is a question of reputation and character, and to decide the moral or legal responsibility, or both, he wrote to Capt. Lamar to submit tho proposition that five bank Presidents should sit as a board to bear both sides and determine, Presidents Hammond, Flannery and Weed having consented to act. To" this, be said, Capt. Lamar replied that the matter was no longer in his hands. Col. Anderson said that Capt. Lamar was endeavoring to blacken his reputation, and the two must meet at ten jiaces or Savannah would not hold them both. CAPT. LAMAR’S STATEMENT. Capt. Lamar was seen in his office. He seemed to take the matter very coolly and spoke freely of it, though he regretted very much that the affair should have occurred. In regard to the key to the vault he said that when he took charge of the office there were not safes enough and the regist red letters had to be put into the vaults at night. The key was then kept by both Col Anderson and the registry clerk, but when his application for safes was recognized and the safes sent on, the key to the vault was delivered to Col. Anderson, who counted his cash and said it was all right. Since that time the key had never been out of Col. Anderson's possession except once when he was going’ out of the city. Col. Andei-son then gave him the key and he locked it in his safe and kept it there until Col. Ander son’s return, when they went together to the safe and he gave it to Col. Anderson. Since then tho Colonel has kept it until he delivered it up to the inspector. Within the last thirty days, he said, Col. Anderson had reported to him that his cash was all right, but that tho office had not lieen in spected for some time and he sent for an inspector. TIIE MEETING TWO WEEKS AGO. The result was the finding of the short oge, which Col. Anderson wanted to lay at anyone’s door but his own, ami that, In said, was the cause of the difficulty between them on Saturday night, Oct. 1. It was re j sir tod that the}' had a quarrel over busi ness affaire, but that was not true. Col. Anderson, he said, was under the influence of liquor and was abusing the clerks In the office and calling them thieves. Capt. Lamar went back to where he was and told him that he must not talk in that way, but he became more abusive than ever. Capt. I<amar then sent for a policeman, but the officer would not make the arrest. Col. Anderson’s shortage was made up and he wont after his bond, but Capt. Lamar said that lie would not sur render it until all the accounts were closed, because while till the employes are under bond to him he is responsible to the government. A shortage of SSO had occurred once in the stamp department, but rather than have a question of honesty raised among the young men in the office, whose names he did not care to have connected with anything of the kind, he paid the money out of ins own pocket. He wanted to hold the txmd until the whole matter is straightened out, but Col. Anderson came into the office and became abusive, and drawing his pistol so that he was forced to defend himself. Capt. Lamar said that the trouble was not over the key, hut it was due to Col. Anderson’s intemper ance which has kept him in h fren zied state ever sine > the examination of his books began. He bail him placed under the peace warrant with the hone that his family would take care of him, but he had, he understood, been released under bond. The ex-deputy sat in Justice Russell’s office until late in the afternoon, when his brother, Maj. George Anderson, went on his bond, and be was released. THROOQH THB CITY. Items Gathered Here and There by the News Reporters. Chippewa Tribe of lied Men will meet to night. The Youth’s Historical Society will give an entertainment on Wednesday night at the Masonic Hall. Ancient Landrum Lodge Free and Ac cepted Masons will hold its regular monthly trusting to-night. The Central railroad is counting on a big travel from now until the close of the Pied niont Exposition. The Board cf Officers of the First regi ment will meet to-night at the Oglethorpe Light Infantry’s armory. The County Commissioners yesterday gave Mr. C. A. Robbe, the contractor for the eating apparatus in the ell portion of the new jail, an order to put the heaters in the residence and hospital part of that build ing. The fall term of Oglethorpe Seminary, No. 139 Drayton street, Mrs. Louis G. Young, principal, will open to-day. The seminary lias a complete faculty of well-known teachers, and it starts off under most favor able auspices. The adjourned meeting of the Burglar Alarm and District Telegraph Company will be held this evening at 8 o’clock, at Metropolitan Hall. It is expected that there will be quite a lively discussion of the company’s affairs. The Independent Presbyterian church will be opened for services next Sunday morning. The new organ, now being built in Boston, will not be ready before Decem ler. Next Sunday a vocallan organ will be used instead. This is a reed instrument of peculiar mechanism capable of producing a much greater volume of sound than other organs of similar size. THE PUBLIC BCHOOLS. Supt. Baker’s Report on the First Week’s Work. The Board of Public Education met last night at the Chatham Academy. Present, Dr. J. B. Read, Vice President, presiding, and Messrs. Douglass, Blun, Duncan, Tatt nall and Estill. The minutes of the last regular and a special meeting were read and approved. Supt. {laker submitted his monthly re port, which was received as information and ordered to be spread upon the minutes: The public schools of Chatham county, city and country, were reopened on Monday, Oct. 4. The enrollment, as learned from the reports of the city principals, submitted on Friday, was 3,190. being 124 in excess of the enrollment at the end of the first week last year. Many appli cants have been received since that date, which will increase the numbers given. Owing to the resignation of Miss Loewenthal, teacher of the second grade in the Barnard Street School, the assislant teacher has been placed in charge of a regular class. It will therefore be necessary to elect an assistant. In accordance with the recommendation of the committee on examina tion of teachers, the successful competitors at the examination held on Sept. 20 were placed in positions in the schools as assistants. Owing to the increased accommodations furnished at Chatham Academy, the classes are not so crowded as they were last year. A remedy, in the few grades in which the numbers are exces sive, will be furnished by transferring the pupils to other schools. Avery large nnmber of applicants for admis sion into the colored schools have been excluded for want of room. No authentic or official reports will be re ceived from the country schools until the end of the month. The committee on the examination of applicants for assistant teacberships re ported, and recommended the following appointments to the white schools: Miss M. W. McCulloch, Miss Alice H. White and Mrs. H. N. Lighteey. Miss Georgia Knox and Miss Maria E. Gaston were recommended as assistant teachers in the colored schools. The com mittee reported that the grades of the other colored applicants were so low that they were not considered. The report was adopted. A letter was read from Mr. G. W. Lee, teacher of the school at Bethesda, showing that there were 75 scholars in attendance. The letter was referred to the Finance Com mittee. A communication was read from Messrs. Wylly & Clarke, H. L. Schreiner and E. M. Connor, calling the attention of the Board to the distribution of lists of school tiooks with the advertisement of a book house of this city printed on them by the teachers at the recent opening of the schools. Capt. Blun offered the following resolu tions which were adopted: Resolved, That hereafter it shall be the duty of the Superintendent to provide teachers with pointed lists of such books as may be required for use in the schools, and he shall also publish said list in daily newspapers of the city at least one month before the opening of the schools. Resolved, Further, that hereafter teachers shall not lie permitted to distribute or use any list of books containing the advertisement of any bookseller or any other business firm. A communication was read from the citizens of Pooler (station No. 1, Central railroad) informing the board that a school had been organized at that place and re questing the appointment of Mr. A. P. Holt as teacher, and certain other gentlemen as trustees. Mr. Holt was appointed teacher, but the appointment of trustees was re ferred to a special committee. The citizens living in the neighborhood of Bethel public school, on the Ogeecbee, peti tioned the board to appoint certain parties trustees to look after the interests of the school. The petition was referred to the same special committee. Miss. M. W. McCulloch was on motion elected to fill the vacancy in the eighth grade of the Barnard street school. On motion the examination for assistant teachers was ordered to be held at the Chat ham Academy on Friday. Oct. 28. On motion the salary of the janitor of the academy was made S6O per month, with the understanding that ho was to take care of the entire building. Col. R. W. Habersham, who was in wait ing, was invited to address the board on the subject of technological education. The Colonel spoke aliout ton minutes, and was listened to with great interest. The address was in furtherance of an application for the use of a room r he academy to be used by that gentleniß’ f a technological school. After Col. I ab sham had retired, a reso lution was pas.. u tendering him the use of a room in the Academy, ana the Superintend ent was requested to assign him a suitable room for his class. TO GO TO MEXICO. Agent Yonge, of the O. S. S. Cos., Going With Capt. Raoul. Mr. Henry Yonge, the New York agent of the Ocean Steamship Company, has given notice to the company of his intention to sever his connection with it. It is probable that, he will vacate his place aliout Oct. 20. He has accepted the position of Superintendent of the Mexican National railroad, of which Capt. Raoul is President. The compensa tien of his now position will be a very great deal more than that which he now receives, although his present salary is quite a hand someone. He will resido iu the City of Mexico. Mr. Yonge has been with the Ocean Steamship Company quite a long while, and m losing him it loses a very valuable officer. Gnu. Sorrel, the General Manager of the comnanv. is at present in New York with tiie view, doubtless, of arranging for Mr. Yonge’s successor. The steamers are now landing at the pier which bus been undergoing such extensive repairs and changes within the past few months. Funeral of the Late J J. Abrams. The funeral of the late J. J. Abrams will take place at 3:30 o’clock this afternoon, from No. 163 Gaston street. A meeting of the Chat ham county bar will bo held at the court house at 9 o’clock this morning, to take action in regard to Mr. Abrams’death, and the members will attend his funeral in a body. Black, Nutt and Brown Stiff Hate, the latest, at Belsinger's, 94 Whitaker street. THE YELLOW FEVER SCARE. Talk About Quarantine—Nurses Ready to Go to Tampa. The absence of any move on the part of the authorities to establish a quarantine against Tampa has caused considerable talk. A good many people are anxious that some thing shall be done. The Sanitary Com missioners have taken no steps in this direc tion, and they have not even considered the matter. Health Officer McFarland is confined by illness. Dr. Duncan, who is a member of the Sanitary Board and also of the City Council, says that there is no necessity for quarantining at this time of the year. He is in doubt whether it is yellow fever or dengue that is prevailing at Tampa, and even if it is yellow fever he says Savannah is iu no danger. He re ceived the following telegram last night from President Ingraham, of the South Florida railroad, who telegraphed here on Saturday for nurses: Sanford, Fla., Oct. 10. Dr. H’tn. Duncan, Savannah: J. R. Fish has gone to Tampa to organize a relief station and will notify us to-day as to the number of nurses required, if any. Will wire you later. J. E. Ingraham. No further advices have been received. There are any number of nurses here who are ready' to go at once if wanted, but until something more definite is heal'd they will not be sent on. Bradstreet’s Mercantile Agency received the following letter from its Tampa cor respondent in regard to the situation there: Tampa, Fla., Oct. 8, 1887. You cannot imagine the panic which has struck the people here. Four people have died within the last three weeks and because the doctors don't just exactly know what of they have called it or led us to believe'it is yellow fever. Of the first of the four cases, from what Icp n gather, the man undoubtedly died of in ternal liemorhage. The peculiarity of the vomit, which was of dark color arising’ from the action of the gastric juices led some people to call it yellow jack. This was about the 18th tilt. All the people were quarantined in their own houses for ten days. None of them developed any disease. The second inau on Oct. 1 had been long suf fering from Bright's disease, and his people de clare he died from that. The third case, which set the people all wild, was the painter, who was an intemperate man in the way of both drinking and eating, died suddenly. The last death was last Thursday. The mau had been sick about two weeks and was just recovering from whatever he was afflicted with, so his doctor said, when lie was taken badly just about four horn's before he died. Almost all of the business houses are closed, and the town is just about as dull as it can be. The impression gathers that the people who have left— 3,ooo or 4,ooo— are too hasty, and that they will return In the meantime the town has received a blow from which it will suffer to a very great extent, and time only will show whether there is anything to justify this score. Dun’s agency has received no advices. An agent was sent into Florida yesterday, and his report will probably be received to morrow. RIVER AND HARBOR NOTES. Happenings Among the Shipping and Along the Wharves. A survey was held yesterday on the British steamship Kate Fawcett, on which a bale of cotton caught fire Saturday. The board, consisting of Capt. Wilson, of the British steamship Hawardon, J. T. Stewart, Lloyd’s agent, accompanied by W. Robert son, the British Vice Consul. No damage was found and they recommended that she continue taking in her cargo and proceed to her destination. Local Personal. J. Randolph Anderson, Esq., returned from the North yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Fraser went up to Atlanta last night. They will visit the ex position this week. Capt. S. W. Rhoades, of Charleston, is in the city looking after the cargo of the brig Isabella, recently put into this port in dis tress. A Sore Throat or Cough if suffered to progress, often results in an incurable throat or lung trouble. “Brown's Bronchial Troches ” give instant relief. The most beautifully trimmed Bonnets and Hats at Altmayer’s. Opening Thurs - day and Friday. Handsome line of Scarfs at Belsinger's, 24 Whitaker street. _____________________ Don’t fail to attend Altmayer’s grand opening Thursday and Friday. Look at Altmayer’s lovely Dress Goods at opening Thursday and Friday. Oak, Pine and Lightwood, For sale by R. B. Cassels, corner Taylor and East Broad streets. Telephone No. 77. CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE. James S. Silva & Son. Lyons Block, Broughton Street. We wish to remind housekeepers, when replenishing their household goods, that at our store can be found a choice assortment of plain and fancy China and Glassware more varied and complete than ever before. We keep all the little conveniences and latest novelties so sought after by the ladies. TO KEEP YOU WARM We have Kerosene Stoves, Coal Hods, Coal Vases, Fire Dogs, Fenders, Shovels and Tongs, Pokers, Blower Stands, etc. Remember to see us when in need of any thing in our line. Jas. 8. Silva & Son. A Lively Whirl. It takes live methods to succeed in any thing. Business doesn’t come to the mer chant who waits. We don’t propose to wait. For weeks we have been busy get ting in a large stock of our usual fine grades of tailor-made suits. Wo didn’t buy it to keep, but to sell, and now we want to sell it. You may not be ready to buy yet, yet many are buying their fall and winter suits now. The early buyer has many advan tages over the late one—fuli lines, large as sortment and groat variety in fabrics —yet we aim to keep our linos "full at all times. In some cases it can’t be done, hence we sug gest the advantage of early buyers. You ] have no idea how well we can serve you; I variety in colors, fabrics and low prices are our inducements. We assure perfect tits. What more can you ask! Come and go over our stock with us; your eyes will lie opened. Parents can elotho their boys with us at a great saving. In a word, if we can’t give you the finest assortment, the snuggest fit, and the greatest general satisfaction we don t want your order. Simon Mitchell, The Golden Arm, 159 Broughton street. Boys’ Blue Hats for 26c. “The Famous” has removed to 114 Con- Kress street, northeast corner of Whitaker. In order to call attention to the removal, will sell a nice Boy’s Blue Hat or Polo Cap, for 25c., Knee Pants, age Ito 13, for 50c. to 75c., Suits, 4to 15, for $2 50 Also a reduc tion i prices on all our Men's and Youths’ Clothing. Get the prices of any of our competitors, then come to seo us, and you will lie convinced that we can sell any grade suit wanted at a savin;; of $2 50 to *5 00, as we manufacture our clothing, and sell them at prices our competitors buy them at. Oak, Pine and Lightwood, For sale by R. B. 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